The fact that Mark Wahlberg got a Best ing Actor nomination for this over Jack Nicholson will NEVER sit right with me
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“I just thought there would be more.”
Spent 165 minutes watching 12 years of Mason’s life and subsequently spent two hours in a nostalgic daze thinking back on every major life event I’ve endured throughout the past decade and now I’m currently attempting to make sense of my existence as we head into 2020! 🥰
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The scene where Marion is washing dishes and giving Lady Bird the silent treatment even though she’s begging her to talk to her is one of the most upsetting scenes in the history of cinema and resembles FAR too many agonizing experiences from my own adolescence and I’m HURT
Finch really dropped one of the top 10 best films of the decade on us in 2014 and then awards season said “Gone Girl, who?” so I do not blame him for a SECOND for abandoning us these past 5 years
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Every time I rewatch this, I’m worried the magic will wear off.
And yet... as soon as “Another Day of Sun,” begins, I’m reminded that this is one of the most enduring examples of purely transporting, classical cinema ever put to film.
Best of the decade.
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“She’s rich, but still nice.”
“Not ‘rich, but still nice.’ She’s nice because she’s rich. Hell, if I had all this money, I’d be nice too!”
Watching this movie with my thriller-adoring mother and hearing her gasp every two minutes is truly the best (belated) Christmas gift I could ever receive
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Little Women is a lovely, light, and leisurely lark that ravishingly reconciles the past with the present in a way that the best trips down memory lane do thanks to Greta Gerwig’s audacious adaptation and the terrifically timely yet still timeless portrayals of these classic characters by its capable cast, led by the sensational Saoirse Ronan and the fantastic Florence Pugh.
This year, we’ve seen countless films that center around characters who grapple with their pasts and reflect on previous…
“What’s the difference between punishing someone for being a stereotype and rewarding them if they’re not?”
“One of the two comes with benefits.”
“What you call a benefit I call a responsibility I didn’t ask for.”
File this alongside every film Aaron Sorkin has ever written as “Movies That Simultaneously Make Me Want To Be A Screenwriter And Dash My Dreams Of Ever Composing Something As Perfect Myself”
“When the one-child policy is over, and people can have all the children they want, the memory of the one-child policy will be lost”
One Child Nation is a chilling collection of collective catastrophes - both intimately experienced and country-wide - as director Nanfu Wang charts the pain of this policy from her family’s own familiarity with its ferocity all the way to the more expansive evils being endured by children all across China. It’s explosively effective and bares this…
“The sound of our songs was louder than the bombs falling outside.”
For Sama is a heartwreching, honest, and humanistic look into life in Aleppo, told through the fierce, feminist perspective of Waad al-Kateab as she traverses through the turmoil and works alongside her doctor husband to help her fellow citizens in any way they can. The documentary analyzes the unrest from a ground-level viewpoint, with little attention given to the politics of the conflict as, instead, a spotlight is…
“Do all lovers feel they’re inventing something?”
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a simply staggering piece of sensual cinema, summoning a seductive spell upon its audience and enveloping every viewer in this elegant and enchanting experience with Céline Sciamma’s delicate direction and the delectable dual performances of Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel.
While the film is a slow-burn without a doubt, this only makes its seduction all the more surreptitious. You’re most certainly aware of the leisurely pace,…